It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.

To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?

Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.

A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.

Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.

You don’t command your plate to provide you with food and it does. And you don’t have to get bored if it doesn't. Whatever has to drop into the plate must pass through your head!

Life is like a flowing river. Just like the speed of time, it will never come back.

Get you gone, you dwarf, You minimus of hindering knotgrass made, You bead, you acorn!

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

In general, those who defend capitalism are basically out of touch with reality.

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal.